Folks, we'll see if the stuff works.

I just started working with Google spreadsheet but when I tried to invite friends to collaborate on this sheet, Gmail is down. 8:18pm PST. Tags: GMail , Google

OpenDarwin Shutting Down as of 2006.07.25 ( More... ) Tags: OpenDarwin , Open Source

Steve Rubel writes about ToolURL . "ToolUrl is an invaluable Web site that gives you lots of great data about any Web domain in the world. Best of all, it's free and it dishes great data for PR professionals." Tags: ToolURL , blogging , website...

Gizmodo has the info. BlogTalkRadio closes the gap between live radio broadcast and offline podcasting. ( More... )

So I arrived just in time to cramp into a small, already packed, conference room. Too small I might add. Today we have Chris Anderson (You know: The Long Tail ) on stage, Looking forward to hearing what he has to say about Microsoft and what our long...

Our very own John Pritchard from Microsoft Australia's Enterprise Partner Group talks about the new imaged based install on APC Magazine . Verdict: Nice read. Tags: Vista , Image-based install , XP , WIM

You can read it everywhere , AMD slashes the prices for some processor lines by a whooping 47%. ( More.. .)

Thanks to ZDNet you can listen to the whole press conference as podcast.

This week we have a Microsoft techie conference in downtown Seattle, TechReady III or TR3. Cool stuff about new technologies we will ship with Vista and Longhorn. The best of all, Microsoft folks from all over the world are here this week. And they...

Eventually someone read and understood the whole story and found it out. Congrat's. If Microsoft would have done s.th. like that, everybody would have called it bluff package. And demanded the service must be opened to everyone. Now it is it just a...

Another great 64-bit story. Since a picture says more than 1,000 words, check out the image. In case you wonder about the less concurrent connections on 64-bit, read the complete article : "... Finally, our prediction of an increased number of...

Might want to add other formats to the podcasts on one2one and get more visitors. More ...

Congratulations to the new job as an evangelist for Web and Windows Live at D&PE France. BTW, D&PE stands for Developer and Platform Evangelism. Christophe also moved his blog from blogs.msdn.microsoft.fr/clauer to blogs.msdn.com/clauer. You...

Neil posts about the (new) Windows Principles . Scoble hasn't yet. More ...

Life is a ride on a cruise ship. Who's your captain? More...

In a recent post on one2one Dell explains the core tents of their system design. First, I did not know that it requires designer to "design" the kind of cases you stuff your good (and to some extent excellent) hardware into. Second, which...

I just tried my new bed a.k.a. blog. Please check out the new webblog: http://volkerwill.wordpress.com . The new feed is http://volkerwill.wordpress.com/feed . For now the old blog http://blogs.msdn.com/volkerw ( Feed ) will continue to exist. And...

Finally I was able to upload the missing 3 issues of the 64-bit Insider. Unfortunately they do not have the same fancy layout as the previous letters. But it is about the content, right? The 3 issues can be downloaded from www.64advantage.com or directly...

In an Intel press release you can read about Intel's promise to double the performance with the new Itanium generation. Read the full press release here . Quote: "They double the performance and lower energy requirements, improving performance...

Robert, I can’t believe what I am reading: “ anyone can build a cool car for $45,000 ”. Have you checked the American streets lately? There are quite a lot cars out there, USD 45k and beyond and many, many are basically crap. BTW, not...

Now this is too much. Dan Brown did already an excellent job in promoting his book by upsetting almost all of clerical America and large parts of the rest of the world with his book . Others claimed that the ideas in The Da Vinci Code were actually stolen...

Wonder where they are with their project to support Vista. as guest on a Mac. Benjamin Rudolph kind of promised Vista or ACPI support for that matter in Parallels before Vista ships. Uuhhh. Let’s hope we stick to our current ship date. Can’t...

Neil Patel put together this impressive list of domain names owned by Google. Quite impressive. Thanks Neil. Wonder how big the Microsoft list will be?

Wow, that is a piece of real good news. We work with them already for quite some time very closely. I guess you agree that Mark is certainly a great and bright guy. Welcome!